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GRB高能关联中选择效应的广义检验

Generalized Tests for Selection Effects in GRB High-Energy Correlations

Nathaniel R. Butler, Daniel Kocevski, Joshua S. Bloom

摘要:

从伽玛暴的高能特性模型中导出的参数之间的几个相关性已被报道。我们发现,这些著名的例子有共同的特点,表明强污染的选择效果。在这里,我们专注于探测器阈值截断的影响,光谱峰值与各向同性等效能量释放($E_{\rm pk}$ - $E_{\rm iso}$)的关系,扩展到一个大样本的218斯威夫特和56 HETE-2伽玛暴和没有测量红移。在雨燕之前的调查中,存在着一些微弱的雨燕事件,这就对基于雨燕之前的调查的推论提出了质疑,因为这些推论必须受到复杂的不完全性效应的影响。我们展示了一种通用的方法来处理相关分析中的数据截断,并将此方法应用于Swift和前Swift数据。此外,我们发现,$E_{\rm pk}$ - $E_γ$(“吉兰达”)相关是有效地独立于伽玛暴红移,这表明它的存在与本征物理几乎没有关系。我们建议,一个基于物理的相关性,明显的观测,必须显示显着减少分散在休息帧相对于观察者帧,必须不坚持,如果假设的红移是分散的。与$E_{\rm pk}$ - $E_γ$关联一样,我们发现\citet{amati06}的前雨燕明亮GRB $E_{\rm pk}$ - $E_{\rm iso}$关联并不严格满足这些条件。

英文摘要:

Several correlations among parameters derived from modelling the high-energy properties of GRBs have been reported. We show that well-known examples of these have common features indicative of strong contamination by selection effects. We focus here on the impact of detector threshold truncation on the spectral peak versus isotropic equivalent energy release ($E_{\rm pk}$-$E_{\rm iso}$) relation, extended to a large sample of 218 Swift and 56 HETE-2 GRBs with and without measured redshift. The existence of faint Swift events missing from pre-Swift surveys calls into question inferences based on pre-Swift surveys which must be subject to complicated incompleteness effects. We demonstrate a generalized method for treating data truncation in correlation analyses and apply this method to Swift and pre-Swift data. Also, we show that the $E_{\rm pk}$-$E_γ$ ("Ghirlanda") correlation is effectively independent of the GRB redshifts, which suggests its existence has little to do with intrinsic physics. We suggest that a physically-based correlation, manifest observationally, must show significantly reduced scatter in the rest frame relative to the observer frame and must not persist if the assumed redshifts are scattered. As with the $E_{\rm pk}$-$E_γ$ correlation, we find that the pre-Swift, bright GRB $E_{\rm pk}$-$E_{\rm iso}$ correlation of \citet{amati06} does not rigorously satisfy these conditions.

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